Spencer Bassett

Spencer Bassett
Personnel
Surname	Spencer Thomas Bassett
birthday	3rd quarter 1885
place of birth	Blackheath ,  England
date of death	April 11, 1917
Place of death	France
position	Outside runner , middle runner
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	Maidstone United
1906-1910	Woolwich Arsenal	1 (0)
1910-1913	Exeter City	81 (3)
1913-1914	Swansea Town	24 (2)
1914-1915	Southend United
1 Only league games are given.

Spencer Thomas Bassett (3rd quarter 1885 in Blackheath , † April 11, 1917 in France ) was an English football player.

Career

Bassett played for Maidstone United before joining Woolwich Arsenal in 1906 . In May 1907 he received a professional contract, but continued to play in the reserve team in the South Eastern League and won the championship there with the team in 1907/08. His only use in the Football League First Division he had as a right outside runner on the side of Roddy McEachrane and Matthew Thomson on October 7, 1909 in a 1: 5 loss to Notts County . In 1910 he left Arsenal and then played in the Southern League , initially for three years at Exeter City , where he played all 38 league games in the 1911/12 season. The 1913/14 season he played at Swansea Town , he had already played with the local player- coach Walter Whittaker at Exeter and was part of the team that was the first Welsh team to qualify for the main round of the FA Cup (Aus in der 2nd main round against Queens Park Rangers ). Overall, he completed Swansea's second season as a professional team, in addition to 24 league appearances, six games in the FA Cup and two in the Welsh Cup . He last played for Southend United in 1914/15 .

During World War I , Bassett served in France on the Western Front in the Royal Garrison Artillery . At the age of 32, he died on April 11, 1917 in the Battle of Arras .

literature

• Jeff Harris: Arsenal Who's Who . Independent UK Sports Publications, London 1995, ISBN 1-899429-03-4 , pp. 8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maurice Golesworthy, Garth Dykes, Alex Wilson: Exeter City: A Complete Record, 1904–1990 . Breedon Books, Derby 1990, ISBN 0-907969-68-2 , pp. 160 ff .
2. ↑ cwgc.org: Casualty Details - BASSETT, ST
3. ↑ grecianarchive.exeter.ac.uk: Bassett, Spencer , accessed January 1, 2018
4. ^ Colin Jones: Swansea Town and City Football Club - The Complete Record 1912-2012 from Southern League to the Barclays Premier League . Dinefwr Publishers, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-904323-26-6 , pp. 7th f .